11.28.2013

It is strange, after all those Thanksgiving days in the US, spending time with family and friends, sitting at welcoming tables- all of them beautiful and plentiful; The cold outside, the smell of roaring fires in the hearth, the after dinner walks and dessert afterwards.

I really miss all that!

Have a wonderful day!

Here in Paris, Thanksgiving dinner will be at our place with a few of our girls' wonderful Franco-American friends.

Like last year it will be lively, delicious and so much fun!

Like last year it will be on Saturday...this is France. No day off.

Oh, and we have a Thanksgiving dinner invitation with a number of "Paris Americans" on Sunday. A lot of turkey and cranberry sauce this year.

11.06.2013

You may remember my post about the Missoni sweater I got at Target, against all odds, two years ago. (There was a rush- no, a regular stampede- on anything Missoni had designed for Target.) I still have it even though it is more than two years later and I still love it. Yet, I was relatively surprised to see Kate Blanchett wearing it in Blue Jasmine, the latest Woody Allen movie. A Target sweater? Yes, a Missoni, but really? with her Hermès bag and Roger Vivier shoes?

The (highly important!!) question is this: where did the film's costume designer get it? At Target, that one and only day they still had some? on Ebay afterwards? -everyone was saying that was the reason for the rush on the event in the first place-.

I won't loose sleep over this, of course. it's just funny to see it in the movie, that's all. Of course, the costume designs were certainly chosen a long time ago. Maybe even when THE Missoni/Target line was in the stores. The designer can be commended for his or her thriftiness, in any case.

Two (highly important!!) questions were put to me, by a dear friend: how did you spot it and how do you remember it?

The last (highly philosophical!!) question : is it that important?

To ME it is...somewhat, maybe, a little; enough to bring it to the attention of the Fashion-History/Woody-Allen-movie-hungry readers among you, my no-minute-detail-bores-me readers...

Oh, and if you have not already done so (and if you are in a super, SUPER up mood...) do go see Blue Jasmine.

11.02.2013

I love contemporary art. Visiting the FIAC at the Grand Palais in Paris was a must, of course.These three pieces were delightful! (there were a lot of pieces made of mirror: broken mirror - by Doug Aitken-, mosaic, kaleidoscopes etc.), a few delicate mobiles like the one below which moved very soothingly slow,

and of course a array of surprising pieces in a various fun materials

Dice

Baseball bats.

The venue alone is worth the trip! Anything looks great in there.

It was somewhat hot and stuffy and at one point rain came crashing down on the glass "verrière" with enough force that one felt that taking a little more time to admire the offerings...This aside, there was the well known: Some Keith Haring, Picasso, Dubuffet and Basquiat. And there was the unfathomable: installations that I have to admit, I don't get...it takes all kinds.I was mesmerized, as always, with what some creative minds can come up with! That will never cease to delight me!